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rapidly going into a decline, and when I saw it in 1895 it bore 
only one tuft of living leaves from a single adventitious sprout. 
The elm has long been the favorite tree for bordering walks 
and drives and among the most famous have been those on 
either side the ‘‘ Broad walk” at Oxford; our own New Haven 
‘elms and those of Boston Common have also been justly famous 
in the past, but now are fearfully ravaged by the beetles and 
caterpillars as well as passing into the decline that early over- 
takes all the shade trees of modern gas-lighted cities. Perhaps 
no single tree in America is better known than the elm that 
stands opposite Cambridge Common under which Washington 
took command of the American Army in 1775. Other famous 
elms are those of Waverley and Sheffield in Massachusetts, and 
Canaan in Connecticut. 
The horsechestnut, a native of Central Asia, has long been 
planted in Europe and vies with the American elm as a shade 
tree, attaining there a magnificence unknown in this country. 
Among the most famous of this species are those of Bushy Park 
near Hampton Court, whose trunks measure three and four feet 
in diameter, and the solitary one at the side of Brasenose College 
in Oxford, known as Bishop Heber’s chestnut, as it still shades 
the window of the room he occupied when a student in the univer- 
sity, long before he wrote of ‘ Greenland’s icy mountains.”’ 
Certain beeches are also well known, particularly in Europe, 
where the tree stands in higher repute than with us. The Burn- 
ham beeches are perhaps the most noted, and some of those at 
Fontainbleau are famous because of their history and associa- 
tions 
Botanical gardens have frequently served to preserve trees of 
historic interest. At the Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg they 
point out the poplar planted by Peter the Great; at the Jardin 
des Plantes in Paris is the cedar of Lebanon which Jussieu brought 
from the Holy Land in the crown of his hat; and at the Kew 
Garden are the ‘Seven Sisters’’ planted for the daughters of 
King George — now decrepit elms, while on the banks of the 
neighboring Thames is ‘‘Queen Mary’s elm,” still older, and 
the spreading linden under which the children of George the 
third had their out-of-door school. 
